Couples Therapy Intensive
Nobody begins their marriage or intimate relationship planning to divorce or separate, or to feel disconnected, alone, and unloved. It is not unusual, however, for couples to find themselves in just that type of scenario as they attempt to navigate seemingly hopeless situations, experience breaches of trust and non-communication, and feel so stuck that separation or divorce may seem to be the only options.
A couples therapy intensive is designed to help you transform the experience of your marriage/intimate relationship, especially following a major breach or compromising event such as the following:
An intensive may also be helpful if you are trying to make a big decision and don’t have the luxury of time, or if you are feeling stuck with one conflict that seems unresolvable. This approach offers you a safe environment to explore how you can connect with higher levels of safety and support in your relationship and build from there.
Using a series of experiential exercises, I help couples practice how to address challenging issues using boundary work, somatic healing, and guided communication skills, all informed by your existing strengths. Patterns of behavior emanating from family of origin are explored to help reduce intense emotions such as guilt and shame, allowing for the release of patterned behaviors and the emergence of your authentic self. Vulnerability, transparency, and openness are invited and encouraged, leading towards more healthy intimacy. You will learn new methods of engaging one another both verbally and non-verbally.
Participating in a couples therapy intensive offers you focused time to learn to address conflict in a non-aggressive and non-defensive manner, develop healthy patterns of communication, deepen emotional intimacy, address unresolved issues, and jump-start true relational change. It supports deeper levels of connection and enhanced hope for growth.
I have received advanced training in a number of couples and family therapy approaches and have extensive experience teaching the couples and family therapy course for a clinical mental health counseling graduate level program. I currently offer training and consultation for couples and family therapy to professionals across multiple industries and am a professional member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). I personalize your couples therapy intensive keeping in mind your unique strengths, challenges, and needs as a couple. My integrative approach honors your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, physical experience, social-relational experience, and spirituality.
Cost of Service
Couples Therapy Intensive: $4000 (full payment required in advance)
A couples therapy intensive begins with a 30-minute phone or video individual session for each member of the couple, followed by completion of a written individual assessment, followed by two days of immersion in couples counseling sessions, followed by one 2-hour couples counseling session focused on integration.
30-minute phone/virtual initial session per individual
Completion of written relationship assessment
Day 1: One 2-hour couples session (am); 1.25-hour lunch on your own; one 2-hour couples session (pm)
Day 2: One 2-hour couples session (am); 1.25-hour lunch on your own; one 2-hour couples session (pm)
In the week or two following the intensive: One 2-hour couples session (integration)
Additional sessions following the couples therapy intensive are optional and available.
Additional Services
As an alternative to couples therapy intensives, I offer couples who are contemplating divorce or separation an opportunity to work with me within a controlled framework called a structured separation. The ultimate goal of a structured separation is to salvage a marriage or intimate relationship by working with a trained, licensed therapist to put together a separation agreement that includes specific guidelines.
Structured separation allows couples experiencing relational challenges to live separately while negotiating and working together to find solutions to their discord. This approach can be quite helpful when one partner is intent on divorce or permanent separation. Creating intentional distance between the partners and facilitating in-depth individual and couples work with a therapist helps intimate partners see things from different perspectives.
Please contact me if you would like to learn more about structured separation and how I work with couples within this therapeutic framework.
In addition to couples therapy intensives and structured separations, I offer individual therapy, premarital counseling, couples therapy intensives, family therapy, and self-care immersions. Please visit the following pages to learn more about these therapeutic modalities:
Individual Therapy
Couples Therapy
Premarital Counseling
Family Therapy
Self-Care Immersions
Please visit my Presenting Concerns page to learn more about how I can support you with your current therapeutic needs.
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about how I provide couples therapy intensives or other therapy services, or if you feel ready for a 15-minute complimentary phone consultation.
A couples therapy intensive is designed to help you transform the experience of your marriage/intimate relationship, especially following a major breach or compromising event such as the following:
- a significant loss (child, job, etc.)
- a health scare (heart attack, cancer diagnosis, etc.)
- infidelity (sexual, financial, etc.)
- significant life transition (geographical move, family/friend moving in/out, etc.)
- loss of relational passion
- chronic relational distress
An intensive may also be helpful if you are trying to make a big decision and don’t have the luxury of time, or if you are feeling stuck with one conflict that seems unresolvable. This approach offers you a safe environment to explore how you can connect with higher levels of safety and support in your relationship and build from there.
Using a series of experiential exercises, I help couples practice how to address challenging issues using boundary work, somatic healing, and guided communication skills, all informed by your existing strengths. Patterns of behavior emanating from family of origin are explored to help reduce intense emotions such as guilt and shame, allowing for the release of patterned behaviors and the emergence of your authentic self. Vulnerability, transparency, and openness are invited and encouraged, leading towards more healthy intimacy. You will learn new methods of engaging one another both verbally and non-verbally.
Participating in a couples therapy intensive offers you focused time to learn to address conflict in a non-aggressive and non-defensive manner, develop healthy patterns of communication, deepen emotional intimacy, address unresolved issues, and jump-start true relational change. It supports deeper levels of connection and enhanced hope for growth.
I have received advanced training in a number of couples and family therapy approaches and have extensive experience teaching the couples and family therapy course for a clinical mental health counseling graduate level program. I currently offer training and consultation for couples and family therapy to professionals across multiple industries and am a professional member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). I personalize your couples therapy intensive keeping in mind your unique strengths, challenges, and needs as a couple. My integrative approach honors your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, physical experience, social-relational experience, and spirituality.
Cost of Service
Couples Therapy Intensive: $4000 (full payment required in advance)
A couples therapy intensive begins with a 30-minute phone or video individual session for each member of the couple, followed by completion of a written individual assessment, followed by two days of immersion in couples counseling sessions, followed by one 2-hour couples counseling session focused on integration.
30-minute phone/virtual initial session per individual
Completion of written relationship assessment
Day 1: One 2-hour couples session (am); 1.25-hour lunch on your own; one 2-hour couples session (pm)
Day 2: One 2-hour couples session (am); 1.25-hour lunch on your own; one 2-hour couples session (pm)
In the week or two following the intensive: One 2-hour couples session (integration)
Additional sessions following the couples therapy intensive are optional and available.
Additional Services
As an alternative to couples therapy intensives, I offer couples who are contemplating divorce or separation an opportunity to work with me within a controlled framework called a structured separation. The ultimate goal of a structured separation is to salvage a marriage or intimate relationship by working with a trained, licensed therapist to put together a separation agreement that includes specific guidelines.
Structured separation allows couples experiencing relational challenges to live separately while negotiating and working together to find solutions to their discord. This approach can be quite helpful when one partner is intent on divorce or permanent separation. Creating intentional distance between the partners and facilitating in-depth individual and couples work with a therapist helps intimate partners see things from different perspectives.
Please contact me if you would like to learn more about structured separation and how I work with couples within this therapeutic framework.
In addition to couples therapy intensives and structured separations, I offer individual therapy, premarital counseling, couples therapy intensives, family therapy, and self-care immersions. Please visit the following pages to learn more about these therapeutic modalities:
Individual Therapy
Couples Therapy
Premarital Counseling
Family Therapy
Self-Care Immersions
Please visit my Presenting Concerns page to learn more about how I can support you with your current therapeutic needs.
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about how I provide couples therapy intensives or other therapy services, or if you feel ready for a 15-minute complimentary phone consultation.
